Just a few more pics. I’m sat here listening to a Jerry Lee Lewis compilation via Spotify so thought I’d post these up.
This is what it says on the system
Power assisted?
TP-1000 turntable
Managed to catch the needles flickering!
Barrie
Hi Barrie.
Re the 5 pin Din plug for the tape. I have a similar one on my old Leak amp., and it’s for record and replay, just set up the controls on the amp and tape deck accordingly. I used to use it with my Grundig (TK30?) tape machine many decades ago.
Roger
Some great stuff here (or should it be hear?). Regarding speaker placement, are there any general rules that should be followed. Should they form a equilateral triangle with the listener? Problem is, it is not always possible to have your speakers in the ideal positioning unless you have a “listening room” or a very large room where you would not trip over the speakers on the way to the settee. I don’t think my wife would appreciate it if I placed them a couple of metres from the wall!
In these days of bluetooth speakers with on/off and vol up/down that music centre is a thing of beauty. All those knobs and buttons have me salivating with delight!
I well remember the days of the 5 pin DIN plugs. An absolute sod to solder a 4 core screened cable using my dad’s old soldering iron with a bit the size of a crowbar.
As for speaker placement I seem to remember that pointing the speakers in towards the listener isn’t the way to go. That gives a sound stage only covering the arc between you and the speakers. Pointing them forward throws out the sound to both sides of you giving a wider sound stage extending wider than the speaker placement.
As for anybody going off topic, in this case who cares. There are songs that can take us back years and in a lot of cases the memory is affected by how we listened to them. As a kid I listened to the pirate station Radio Northsea International and while I type this their theme tune ‘Man of action’ by ‘The Les Reid Orchestra’ is going around in my head. I might be able to find it online or even on a CD but it wouldn’t be the same. For me it needs to be played with medium wave fade and crackle on an old Bush Bakolite valve radio with a single 8" driver with a worn and faded paper cone.
Perhaps knowing the ‘shortcomings’ of retro systems and how they differ from ‘perfect’ reproduction helps us to understand why we love that sound.
Pressing the record buttons so the VU meters dance to the music is all part of the nostalgia. It’s like lighting the log burner instead of turning up the central heating just to watch the flames.
Some Hi-Fi speaker manufacturers give advisory distances from side/rear walls and each other then you can work from them to find the best placement in your location. In any room, other than a purpose built “listening room”, every thing is a compromise, wrong shape, hard surfaces, soft furnishings, other electrical appliances, etc. and the more high spec the hi-fi the more you really should have a purpose built room to take full advantage of it. Unfortunately for most of us that is totally impossible.
Sorry, I didn’t mean face the speakers towards the listener. I meant should the distance from each speaker to the listener be the same as the distance between the speakers? That is with the speakers facing forwards.
Yes, I do have the distance recommendations between speakers, behind them and to the side but there is no advice on actual listening position?
Ha! Yes, but unfortunately on my otherwise superb NAD cassette deck, the needles on the recording signal strength VU meters are stuck at arbitrary values!
I’ll always remember the speaker placement advice I was given by my dad when I left home.
Take those bloody things with you.
Analogue? If so then I’m sure you could find some suitable generic ones to fill the gaps. If it’s digital you are probably stuffed.
Yes, analogue. I remember years ago dismantling the recorder to get to them but it all just got too messy and I gave up
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I am glad you did that edit Countryboy. I was starting to feel inferior in that I would not have been able to persuade my wife to re-mortgage the house and build a “Listening Room” for the sake of a few hundred quids worth of mid-range Hi-Fi. As much as she may like her music. I am just hoping that she doesn’t notice that I have moved them about 6" further from the wall
It’s all a bit academic for me now, because since I’ve had this problem with tinnitus I find listening to radio/tv/hi-fi/barking dogs/more than four people in a group etc. unbearable, the effect of short, sharp noises especially, dog barks, backfiring exhausts and so on are like explosions in my head! Very, very, very unpleasant! The norm is “white noise” interspersed with “electrical spark/shorts noise” that’s not much fun either!
At least now you have constant irritating noise rattling around in your head all the time you can appreciate what us married blokes have been suffering with for years.
Yep, I realise now what people meant when they said that they’d received an “ear bashing” from their other half!
So very very true,were I worked FLT drivers used to bang their forks down on the floor, went right through me,big joke for them,little apples grow, say I.Locked in here with tinnitus, wooshing, popping,dishes being put away,radio on through the night for back round noise,HELP, Rob.
I noticed an ad for some speakers, and one thing struck me a a classic example of spec inflation, 60W “RMS” in a 1" voice coil.
Really?
It would melt the solder or set fire to the cone.
Best thread on the forum right now. Love my daily fix…
John
The daft thing is that although I’ll probably never play them I still buy records (vinyl). I recently bought 5 mid 1950’s RCA Victor box sets from the USA:-
1 x 2 LP set of Artie Shaw live at the Cafe Rouge
1 x 16 LP set of the Benny Goodman RCA Bluebird catalogue
2 x 5 LP sets of the Glenn Miller civilian band
1 x 5 LP set of the Glenn Miller USAAF band
You can tell they come from the “auto-changer” era because of the side numbering on the LP’s - 1/10, 2/9, 3/8. 4/7, 5/6 - on the 5 LP sets, play the stack one way, sides 1 - 5, flip it over for sides 6 -10, similar on the others.
Probably from a “Swing” era fan’s collection as they were virtually mint!
Now all I need is a miracle cure for the tinnitus! “Tommy can you hear me?/Miracle cure” (The Who)
Quite.
How many squeaks, groans, and general audible irritations have been diagnosed over the years to the article in the pax seat?